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Give-Away: Silk for Your Landscape

Do you have this phobia? Are you worried that silk is a scary, exotic fabric, difficult to work with, and too expensive to waste? Let me help you overcome this debilitating fear.

In the Yellow House project from my new book,Joyful Stitching, we use a small piece (9″ x 11″) of silk. I show you how to mark the landscape design on the silk with a very fine .05 micro pen. After you fuse the silk to wool batting, you’re good to stitch. Nothing scary here.

And now the the Give-Away part. Leave a comment on my blog today and you may be the lucky winner of a swatch of silk for the Yellow House Landscape project in Joyful Stitching. The winner will be announced next Thursday.

Laura,
This üst might be my “jumping off place” in trying silk for a project, however, it makes me a “nervous nellie” yet I am nonetheless fascinated. Your stitches are so perfect, adding a playfulness to your work that cannot help but inspire. I might never be able to emulate your art with the playful stitches but I just might try. Thank you for then inspiration.

I would love to try this! I would also love hints to starting the stitching and finishing off at the end of a thread. Silk is so slippery and seems to resist staying knotted that I have trouble with it coming out!

I would really enjoy trying to stitch on silk so I hope you pick me. I enjoy all your little art quilts full of stitches. I must finish my spoil of thread kit from you – I just can’t decide what stitches to use.

Oh my the silk is so luscious and the depth of colouring/shadowing is perfect for a sunset or sunrise. It would be so wonderful to have the opportunity to stitch using such a pretty piece of home coloured silk!

Attended your class in Palm Springs a couple of years ago. Would love to win this beautiful silk embroidery! Win or lose, thanks for sharing your art, and all the hard work from your heart, you put into it.

I love the look of the embroidery on the silk! One of my “to do’s” for this year is to do more hand stitching. I love to make handstitched pieces. Last year the quilts I made were mostly machine stitched. So I’m ready to get back to handwork. Your new book came out just at the perfect time for me! Just the book itself is beautiful!

I just got your new book and absolutely love it!! It’ so colorful and fun! I’m going to trace my grand-nephew’s hand, then fill it in with stitches on wool and give it to him for Christmas. I’m in WI & he’s in CO but we’re very close so it will be a special gift. Also plan to try a silk project similar to your picture, but of our cottage. Going to take the plunge into silk because it’s so beautiful. Thanks for all of the inspiration!